LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2016
Specialized Topics - Information Structure and Prosody


PrimaryCalhoun et al., 2005Sasha Calhoun, Malvina Nissim, Mark Steedman and Jason Brenier. (2005) A Framework for Annotating Information Structure in Discourse, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky (ACL 2005).
SupplementaryWhite et al., 2010M. White, R. Clark, and J. D. Moore. (2010) Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions with Contextually Appropriate Intonation. Computational Linguistics 36(2).
SupplementaryCalhoun et al., 2010Sasha Calhoun , Jean Carletta, Jason M. Brenier, Neil Mayo, Dan Jurafsky, Mark Steedman, David Beaver. (2010) The NXT-format Switchboard Corpus: a rich resource for investigating the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and prosody of dialogue. Language Resources and Evaluation 44(4), p. 387-419.
SupplementaryHiyakumoto et al., 1997Laurie Hiyakumoto, Scott Prevost, and Justine Cassell. (1997) Semantic and Discourse Information for Text-to-Speech Intonation. In Proceedings of Workshop on Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems.
Classic Background Papers
SecondaryHirschberg, 1990J. Hirschberg. (1990) Accent and Discourse Context: Assigning Pitch Accent in Synthetic Speech Proc. AAAI 90, pp. 952-957.
SupplementaryPrince, 1992E. Prince. (1992) The ZPG Letter: Subjects, Definiteness, and Information-status. In Thompson, S. and Mann, W., eds. Discourse description: diverse analyses of a fund raising text, Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V. pp. 295-325. 1992.
SupplementaryPrevost, 1996Scott Prevost. (1996) An information structural approach to spoken language generation. In Proceedings of ACL 1996, p. 294-301.